The political forces have, in all likelihood, reached a consensus over the Republican Party’s plan to nominate Armen Sarkissian for presidency, Alexander Markarov, a Yerevan-based political analyst, said Wednesday, predicting low chances for other parties to propose their contenders.

“We can only assume that the rest of the political forces represented in parliament [considering also the political factors] are highly unlikely to propose any other candidate for the president,” he told the paper.

Armen Sarkissian has accepted Republican's offer [to be the ruling party’s nominee in the presidential elections slated for April]; earlier, he conducted numerous meetings to evaluate the situation on the political arena, and the [Armenian] Diaspora.”

Markarov said he believes that in countries having a parliamentary government, the president himself has the responsibility to develop a political culture. “A president is required to create a broad political consensus, something that Sarkissian has virtually tried to do through his meetings with the political forces … The question is what they have achieved. Anyway, the general impression allows us to think some [of the parties] are ready to endorse Sarkissian,” he added.